Photographs: near Baltimore, Co. Cork

Daffodils Narcissus Lus an chromchinn Family: Amaryllidaceae Flowering early-late spring. Perennial bulbs. Introduced Many different hybrids and cultivars are grown including double forms (flore pleno). They have trumpet or bowl-shaped flowers with yellow or white tepals surrounding yellow, white or orange coronas. The basal leaves are narrow and flower stems leafless. Naturalised from deliberate planting, garden discards and relics of cultivation by roads and in hedgerows, churchyards, parks and waste ground. Widespread but less frequent in western and central Ireland

Daffodil, Narcissus agg,, Lus an chromchinn